http://greekgeek.mythphile.com Adventures in Blogging and Article Writing (since 1993) Tue, 26 Apr 2016 15:56:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2015/01/check-in-where-is-greekgeek/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2015/01/check-in-where-is-greekgeek/#comments Tue, 06 Jan 2015 19:48:14 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2770 Personal Chatter ‘Lo, folks. Back from adventures. The good: I managed to make a solo trip to the UK, including Scotland, Ireland, and northern England, which I haven’t visited before. I had a ball at a classic Who convention, indulged in geology and mythology geeking at the Giant’s Causeway, poked around old castles and ruins, and rambled […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2015/01/check-in-where-is-greekgeek/feed/ 0 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2014/05/happy-squidversary-to-me-7-years/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2014/05/happy-squidversary-to-me-7-years/#comments Mon, 05 May 2014 02:20:53 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2590 Well! I turn 7 on Squidoo today. Much has happened since my last Squidbits post. I got banned! (Only from Squidoo’s HQ blog and forums, at a time when I hadn’t been posting on them for many months.) As far as I could tell, HQ thought my last Squidbits post “too negative,” according to the form letter I received. Thus chastened, […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2014/05/happy-squidversary-to-me-7-years/feed/ 11 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/08/the-true-power-of-social-media/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/08/the-true-power-of-social-media/#comments Tue, 07 Aug 2012 07:41:29 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2085 Wow. I had started to create a lens on the Mars Curiosity Rover a little over a week ago, claimed the URL, then stupidly failed to finish it. I wound up creating the article on Hubpages instead, since its clean interface looks a little less corny for educational pages. I discovered one more reason why […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/08/the-true-power-of-social-media/feed/ 1 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/06/getting-ready-for-hobbit-hype-what-are-you-getting-ready-for/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/06/getting-ready-for-hobbit-hype-what-are-you-getting-ready-for/#comments Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:10:05 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2055 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/06/getting-ready-for-hobbit-hype-what-are-you-getting-ready-for/feed/ 2 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/05/my-first-five-years-on-squidoo/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/05/my-first-five-years-on-squidoo/#comments Fri, 01 Jun 2012 02:56:27 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2049 I started this lens on my Squidversary, May 4, 2012, but I didn’t bother to finish it until the end of the month: My First Five Years on Squidoo: a veteran Squid’s retropsective That lens photo shows the only Giant Squid t-shirt I’ve ever handled. It’s not mine; it wanders along with the Journal of […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/05/my-first-five-years-on-squidoo/feed/ 0 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/04/squidoo-hubpages-other-income-sources/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/04/squidoo-hubpages-other-income-sources/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:51:52 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=1930 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/04/squidoo-hubpages-other-income-sources/feed/ 11 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/08/my-hubpages-articles/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/08/my-hubpages-articles/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:57:31 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=1506 This is a backlink post because I just claimed my Hubpages domain and broke the miniscule bit of link juice my articles had accrued through Tweets (which Google follows to find new content, although it doesn’t consider them worth anything for ranking purposes unless you’re an “authority”). Right now, I’m not really targeting keywords on […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/08/my-hubpages-articles/feed/ 0 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/08/hubpages-is-so-much-easier/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/08/hubpages-is-so-much-easier/#comments Sat, 27 Aug 2011 23:33:48 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=1496 Wow. My goal to make 500 lenses by the end of the year may be hijacked by the fact that I can write 2 good hubs in a day. HP’s interface is smoother, faster, and less buggy. Of course, it’s much more limited, lacking many of Squidoo’s features, and I chafe at not being able […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/08/hubpages-is-so-much-easier/feed/ 4 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/08/so-there-you-have-it/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/08/so-there-you-have-it/#comments Fri, 12 Aug 2011 06:48:03 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=1462 As expected, the earnings for June were discouraging for someone who decided at the beginning of this year to take a sabbatical from academia and become self-sufficient through online income by year’s end. Here’s my Squidoo stats for June earnings and today’s traffic. October 2010 was the last time I earned less than $500 on […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/08/so-there-you-have-it/feed/ 1 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/01/squidoo-sales-lens-example/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/01/squidoo-sales-lens-example/#comments Sat, 01 Jan 2011 21:41:12 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=938 When it comes to sales lenses, I’m  a newbie. I’ve been writing on whatever the heck I feel competent and compelled to write about, going with content first and the odd Amazon Spotlight as a complement to my lens. It should be possible to modify that approach to include reviews of things I genuinely use, […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/01/squidoo-sales-lens-example/feed/ 0